Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller

Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress

William Lee Miller

577 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A blow-by-blow re-creation of the battle royal that raged in Congress in the 1830s, when a small band of representatives, led by President John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, employed intricate stratagems to outwit the Southern (and Southern-sympa...

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